| 4.0 excellent |
| A Whisper in the Noise To Forget |
| Afreet Until the End of Time |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agnes Obel Aventine |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Ambassador Care Vale |
| Amorphis Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| An Abstract Illusion Atonement Is Nigh |
Excellent progressive death metal in the vein of Ne Obliviscaris, Insomnium and a few others. The first track, albeit 16+ minutes long, doesn't get boring at any point. I sense a lot of potential in their forthcoming album.
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/ |
| Anathema Eternity |
| Anathema The Silent Enigma |
| Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase |
| Another Perfect Day The Gothenburg Post Scriptum |
| Antimatter Welcome to the Machine / Too Late |
| Apes Penitence |
| Arche Transitions |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia |
| Ataraxis Black Veil |
| Axxis Kingdom Of The Night II |
| Aztlan MEXICO INMORTAL |
| Aztlan Legión mexica |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
| Benjamin Clementine And I Have Been |
| Bewitcher Cursed Be Thy Kingdom |
| Blue October Home |
| Bosco Sacro Gem |
| Brigid Mae Power The Two Worlds |
| Byzantine Byzantine |
| Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve |
| Groovy enough to repeat the album. However, apart from a song or two, not all are memorable. |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Chaos Theatre Symphony of the Stars, Ch. 1: Unholy Dream |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Clouds (INT) Dor |
| Clouds (INT) Doliu |
| Clouds (INT) Despărțire |
| Countless Skies Glow |
| Clean vocals are Devin-isque and that's a good thing. |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Darkher Realms |
| Dave Gahan and the Soulsavers Imposter |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Dessiderium Keys to the Palace |
| On my 4th listen and this album is still giving. Too early but it could be an AOTY contender. |
| Devenial Verdict Blessing of Despair |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Dissolving of Prodigy Lamentations of Innocents |
| Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings |
| DOOM VS Earthless |
| Dreadnought Bridging Realms |
| An excellent album, channeling various heavy and other fantastic moments of avant-garde. The songs are long but not a single boring moment on them. |
| Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind |
| Рожь Всё |
| Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft |
| Ember Sun On Earth and Heaven |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Epistulum From the Dead Masses |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound To Fall |
| Everlasting Mortality The Restless Waves |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fall to November Sky... A Little Sounds for an Empty World |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Famyne Famyne |
| Fantastic Negrito The Last Days Of Oakland |
| Gazpacho Demon |
| Gazpacho Fireworker |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm |
| Glasgow Coma Scale Enter Oblivion |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Greg Puciato Fuck Content |
| Greg Puciato Mirrorcell |
| Grimirg MMXV - I |
| Groza The Redemptive End |
| Haggard Awaking the Centuries |
| Haggard Eppur si muove |
| Hail Spirit Noir Pneuma |
| Hanging Garden I Am Become |
| Havukruunu Tavastland |
| Höstblod Dikter om döden |
| Hippotraktor Meridian |
| This could easily have been titled From Mars to Meridian. |
| Iced Earth Dystopia |
| Iced Earth Plagues Of Babylon |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| Invent Animate Heavener (Definitive) |
| Iress Flaw |
| Iron Maiden Dance Of Death |
| ISON Inner - Space |
| Istapp Sól Tér Sortna |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Kardashev The Almanac |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky |
| With this album, Toby appears to be in cohort with trans-dimensional beings from a place where the synth fused past is still alive or perhaps transcending in a strange amalgamation with the future. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos |
| Kreator Gods of Violence |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Lustre (SWE) Blossom |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart |
| Martin Grech March of the Lonely |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Mechina Empyrean |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Moanaa Torches |
| Mol Diorama |
| Mourning Beloveth Dust |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless |
| Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone |
| Incredible but I wish there were more tracks on this one. |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath |
| My death belongs to you The world seems to be fading |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| A solemn nod to the yester works yet serenading enough to calm new sorrows. Excellent addition to the art that is MDB. |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| My Dying Bride Evinta |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| Mythological Cold Towers Monvmenta Antiqva |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth |
| Nevoa Towards Belief |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nightfall At Night We Prey |
| Album slays with its razor sharp riffs and killer vocals! Killing Moon, Witches, Giants of Anger, Martyrs of the Cult of the Dead are all bangers |
| Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface |
| Novembers Doom To Welcome the Fade |
| Novembers Doom Amid Its Hallowed Mirth |
| Novembers Doom The Knowing |
| Novembers Doom Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Obsidious Iconic |
| October Tide Rain Without End |
| Oden Sun Immortal Souls |
Excellent doomy groovy album! Some really interesting riffs in here.
https://odensun1.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-souls |
| Officium Triste Mors Viri |
| Officium Triste The Death Of Gaia |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Pendulous Mirrored Confessions |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen |
| Definitely missing some element to make it 'grand' but overall an excellent album. |
| Pro-Pain Foul Taste of Freedom |
| Raven ExtermiNation |
| This album is a lot of fun and it took me back to the 80s! |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Riverside O2 Panic Room |
| Riverside Out Of Myself |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Root Kärgeräs - Return from Oblivion |
| Rotting Christ Lucifer Over Athens |
| Saattue Jaahyvasti |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides To Die |
| Saturnus The Storm Within |
| Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus |
| Sea of Desperation The Shards - Nightingale's Death (Part I) |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Serj Tankian Jazz-Iz-Christ |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Shearwater Rook |
| Skyforest Unity |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| Sleestak Aeon |
| Snowday As We Travel |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Soijl Endless Elysian Fields |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road |
| Solautumn Autunnari |
| Spheron A Clockwork Universe |
'Tight' is the right word to describe this band and album! Guitar work is excellent.
http://spheron.bandcamp.com/album/a-clockwork-universe |
| Spiritual Beggars Earth Blues |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams |
| Subterranean Masquerade Mountain Fever |
| Swallow the Sun When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light |
| Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire |
| Tau Cross Messengers of Deception |
| Tenhi Valkama |
| The track 'Valkama' makes me want to weep and laugh at the same time. |
| The Antlers Familiars |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Foreshadowing Oionos |
| The Offering Home |
| The Slayerking Sanatana Dharma |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Universe217 Never |
| Universe217 Change |
| Tanya's voice and the instruments are a perfect marriage in this one. This album has moments that can give you goosebumps! |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| Violet Cold Anomie |
| Voyager V |
| Voyager Ghost Mile |
The djent effect is acceptable, vocals are a highlight and the songs are tightly structured.
Favorite track: The Fragile Serene |
| Warbringer Wrath and Ruin |
| Witherscape The Inheritance |
| Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary |